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Oh, what wonders await you down here in the black...

aaaand here you'll see our favorite technicolor horrors being... technicolor horrors! Wiggly, Nibbly, and Tinky are pretty close to canon depictions/descriptions, but Pokey and Blinky aren't really described so I just made something up for both of them, lol. Pokotho is basically a rock creature full of spores and fungi and Blue Shit™ and Bliklotep is a mass of eyes and fur that really spills out and makes the town drowsy

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Oh, what wonders await you down here in the black...

full transparency, I mostly just thought this version would be funny, so that's why it exists. I also learned that it's just really fun to do fur/fluff in this style!

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Oh, what wonders await you down here in the black...

This might be my favorite just because it was my first idea, lol. And also because I fucking LOVE the Lords' humansonas. And also because holy shit this is SIX ENTIRE PEOPLE that I drew in the same shot!!! It was a challenge and I am very proud. <3

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Bearded Steve and younger Tony for the anon who messaged me- I hope you like it!

I’m always happy to hear what other Stony shippers like, so If anyone wants to send me their ideas, please do! I’ll most likely sketch out something if I’m into them too ;D 

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i agree wholeheartedly

It's unpopular NPMD opinion time...

Even if Max had survived and gotten a redemption arc, he wouldn't have become a part of the nerds' friend group.

He would've stopped bullying and being mean to them, yeah, but I think he would've worked on making his friendship with Jason and Kyle better instead of dumping them for a group of people he has nothing in common with. Apologies would be handed out to them, but I can't see any version of events where he'd actually become their friend, seeing as they have pretty much no shared traits or interests.

And you know what? That's not a bad thing. That doesn't mean any of them failed at anything. It just means they'd all be moving on with their lives—in fact, I think it'd be much easier for the nerds to heal and develop if the person who caused their hurt and trauma wasn't suddenly hanging out with them.

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Stony's love language has GOTTA be physical touch. These mfs are always touching each other in some way. 🤕

I mean, they fr said “Any excuse to get me to hold you.” “You see right through me.” UHM, HELLO?

Anyways, guys, my Stony fixation is still going 4 years strong. RAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅

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indeed

grace truly is the most unhinged of characters. because she had a whole ass fantasy about max. her ahem. alone time fuel. and then he died. and she was happy about it. she fantasized about him, but she didn’t have a crush on him. she didn’t like him. she saw him for his body/attitude and thought it was hot. but she did not mourn him for a second. no actual feelings regarding this man whatsoever. she is so fucking scary. 😂

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happy halloween

you are SO right on max jagerman being babygirl……. so i come to you with this request….

max jagerman in the babygirl pose…..

The pose he hits u with after asking u if u wanna cuddle or sumthin'

Ghost!Max ver. under the cut | CONTENT WARNING: BLOOD, TOO MUCH BABYGIRL ENERGY

Funnily enough I wasn't even taking art reqs atm but this ask spoke to me...for some reason....

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he's like an onion, generally unpleasant to be around, but he has layers

"we need more complex characters" YOU GUYS COULDNT EVEN HANDLE MAX JÄGERMAN

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this is canon to me

Small headcanon that max actually never knew who the mascot was and would talk to zeke about his hopes and deepest fears, and richie just sort of awkwardly comforted him and nodded along hoping max never found out who he was, and in a way, zeke was actually maxs closest friend.

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"Onions have layers. Maxes have layers." you know what else has layers? Leyenars.

I actually fucking hate Mr. Jägerman here's why

Mr. Jägerman is a character in the Hatchetfield universe who is never onstage and only mentioned in 1 (one) line. This was enough to ignite my rage.

It's because in this one line, so much is revealed about Max's character. So let's dissect that.

Max is mean. We know this. The very first thing established about him is how threatening he is. But I think his character often gets lost in the 'bully' identity, because just like every other Hatchetfield character, he is layered and complex.

We also find out two other things about him pretty much immediately: He has a crush on Grace (we'll come back to that) and he needs to feel in control.

There's a lot of evidence to support this. He repeatedly refers to himself as the 'god' of Hatchetfield High. He creates arbitrary rules around who his friends can date. He creates arbitrary rules around where the nerds are 'allowed' to go. And the moment someone implies he is not as powerful as he thinks he is, he retaliates violently.

This isn't just Max being a jerk. These are all signs of someone who is almost certainly deprived of control in their home life, which forces them to find it elsewhere. Max likely has little to no say in what happens to him at home. He's clinging to a sense of control wherever he can find it. And that line basically confirms that his home isn't a safe place for him.

Back to the crush on Grace, when you look objectively at the actions Max takes in the show, you'll find that he's not really a bad person, he's a mean person. He's a little shit that processes his need for control in the entirely wrong way, but people are shaped by their surroundings. The actions that come from him are different.

His crush on Grace only supports this. Every other bully in every piece of media sees the girl they like and whistle and say "yo lemme hit that." And if the girl rejects them, they resort to "tease bitch." Not Max. The first thing he does is start a conversation with her, laughs at (what he thinks is) a joke, then offers to carry her books. Like, I wish my highschool bullies were that nice to their own girlfriends.

When she rejects him, it's true that he continues to pursue her and calls her "dirty girl," but that once again comes back to his need to feel in control. But he doesn't get aggressive, he doesn't do anything that screams 'bully.'

We don't get a lot of scenes with pre-ghost Max. But when we do, they're interesting to analyze. Like, have you ever noticed that when he finds Steph in the Waylon Place, his very first instinct is to tell her, "Get behind me, I'll protect you" from, as far as he knows, actual ghosts? He feels like his life is in danger, but he's still putting Steph's safety first, despite having no interest in her romantically. That's huge.

There's even some evidence to support that Max terrorizing the nerds is, from his perspective, not so one-sided. When he finds out they were the ones who pulled the pranks, he says "I thought you guys hated me."

And he's open to change. He's not stubborn, he's not brutal. He doesn't continue hating the nerds just because it is what it is. Moments before his death, he is showing signs of opening up to them, and actually seems like he's coming around.

And none of this is meant as trying to defend Max's actions. I know he's the antagonist. I know he treats people unfairly. But all of this has to come from somewhere. I'm trying to say that there was clearly a foundation of a good person underneath all that cruelty. So what toughened his shell?

Mr. Jägerman. Max reveals in that one line that if he were to go back home from the 'party', his dad would call him a 'little cuck.' "can't even fight off one lousy skele'uhn." In this, he reveals his dad is demeaning to him. He's the kind of man who would hear that his son was in a life-or-death situation, and instead of comforting him, he would have made fun of him.

What must that do to a person? As someone who grew up in a home where Dad wasn't always a safe person to be around, I know that when I was younger, a lot of my bad bad behaviours were something I learned from him.

The prank meant to scare Max was the nicest thing anyone's ever done for him.

I think a lot of what happens in NPMD is indirectly Mr. Jägerman's fault. "Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is the doctor, wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the monster" type of shit. It is directly because of his actions and the way he treated his own child that any of this happened.

or maybe I'm reading too much into this. But I fucking hate Max's dad so much.

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and i wanna play as him one day (despite the fact that i'm a 21-year-old, soon-to-be 22 girl who actually fits the nerdy prude category to a t)

"ted is doomed by the narrative" this, "richie is doomed by the narrative" that. i wanna talk about how max jagerman is doomed by the narrative.

from the first time we're introduced to him, he is not given the chance to be a human. he's the epitome of a monster, and it's clear from the beginning that he will be catalyzing the story in some way.

it's played through comedy, but we learn more and more about max and why he is the way he is while he's alive. he has a shitty home life, he struggles in school, etc.

we root for the nerds in their endeavor to prank him, because all of them (except grace) have a valid reason to hate him. but then, after the prank, we see an entirely new side of him. simply being treated with a little bit of (what he saw as) kindness brought out something new.

none of this excuses his earlier behavior, but it's a start to his chance at redemption. but, unfortunately, this is hatchetfield, and nobody is safe. so his chance at redemption is ripped away from him and he's forced to relive his earlier sins as, in his words, "the consequence for what you've done".

he's not just doomed by the narrative, he's tormented by the narrative.

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sksksksksks

Probably something along the lines "big game coming up, will you pray for me? I mean... to win? Not that I need it, but... haha... would be nice"

meanwhile she's praying, but for his downfall (and for the game, but she won't tell him that)

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i've made it my mission to play as him one day (ironically, tho, if he and i existed in the same universe, i'd definitely make it onto his kill list)

Thinking about how Max Jägerman from NPMD is a perfect example of how just a line or two of dialogue can add so much more for people to be able to extrapolate about a character.

“No no no, this is like the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me” and “Where Max? Back home so Dad can call you a little cuck?” Gave us so much to work with and they weren’t part of some big story defining speech or anything.

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Day 13: Stone

"I was brave long before I was Captain America, and Tony Stark was a hero long before he was Iron Man."

Sreenshot redraw of one of my favourite Avengers Assemble episodes: The Age of Tony Stark (S2;EP7)

A little context for the people who haven't watched it: The Time Stone gets stuck in Tony's arc reactor, causing him to de-age throughout the episode

I cannot express how much I love and adore this episode, just shows how deep their bond actually goes and I love how it gives a better understanding of how Tony felt when he was younger and Cap getting to hear it and comfort him when he's vulnerable, something that (adult) Tony doesn't often do

While I did want to originally draw the different Infinty stones, I just really REALLY wanted to draw this scene, so here you go🫡

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[BLOOD]

Who will pray for you?

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This is my dead girl walking.